June 25, 2001
CONTENTS:
- Website Origins Unknown: http://www.originsunknown.org
- July issue of Invaluable & Trace magazine
- Catastrophes conference, London, September 2001
- Paintings hidden in Brooklyn apartment returned to museum
From: "ICB Herkomst gezocht" herkomstgezocht@minocw.nl
Subject: Website Origins Unknown
24 june 2001, The Hague
Dear Sir/Madam,
It is our great pleasure to draw your attention to the Bureau Herkomst Gezocht (Origins Unknown) website, which was officially opened on 26 April 2001 by the Secretary of State for Culture, dr. F. van der Ploeg.
Since September 1998, Bureau Herkomst Gezocht has carried out research into the provenance of the NK collection. This collection is comprised of artworks which were recuperated from Germany after the Second World War and are currently held in state custody. The website aims to make the findings of this research available to a wider audience, among other things, by providing a database for perusal.
The Ekkart Committee supervises Herkomst Gezocht's research. The site also includes the recommendations which the Ekkart Committee made on 26 April 2001 with regard to the restitution policy pertaining to the former Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit collection (NK collection).
http://www.herkomstgezocht.nl
http://www.originsunknown.org
Yours sincerely,
F. van Regteren Altena/Naomi Hirschfeld
Bureau Herkomst Gezocht
Herkomstgezocht@cultuurbezit.nl
+31 70-3717200
From: Katrina Burroughs katrina.burroughs@invaluable.com
Subject: Invaluable 148, July issue
In the July issue of Invaluable & Trace magazine
Police performance in the UK and across the Atlantic under scrutiny Who is the weakest link? The new Home Secretary, David Blunkett, has pledged to hold underperforming police up to public scrutiny. But how will he weed out the under achievers? Katrina Burroughs reports California Art Squad The LAPD faces the same issues as our own police officers, with few resources directed at tackling art crime. David Fanning finds that even a two-man operation can produce some impressive results
PLUS
new developments in the security products market Shock waves A new type of anti- burglar device uses sonic waves to incapacitate intruders by producing sensations of nausea, anxiety and pain. John Leaver introduces the Clansman Inferno
AND
Fourteen pages of stolen alerts, rewards and property seized by police and awaiting identification by the original owners.
Katrina Burroughs
Managing Editor
Invaluable Group Ltd
Ph +44 (0) 20 7224 6012 ext 123
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From: Boylan P P.Boylan@city.ac.uk
Subject: Catastrophes conference, London, September 2002
For information.
Patrick Boylan
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An international conference on
"Holocene environmental catastrophes and recovery"
2-7 Sept. 2002
at Brunel Univesity, west London.
Co-sponsored by Brunel University, INQUA and PAGES.
The four main themes are: 1 - Geological catastrophes and their impact on society e.g. megalandslides, earthquakes, tsunami, fires, volcanic eruptions
2 - Environmental causes of civilisation collapse
3 - Biological impacts on societies: extinctions, epidemies, plague, haemorrhagic fever
4 - Climatological impacts on society, e.g. historical droughts.
An informal pre-conference fieldtrip is planned that will examine evidence for past environmental catastrophes in the Scottish Highlands
(post-glacial large-magnitude earthquakes; glacial megafloods; Storegga-Slides tsunami event; human impacts of Icelandic volcanic catastrophes; environmental disturbances in Loch Ness).
Preliminary dates for the fieldtrip are 26 to 31 August 2002. More details to follow.
see for more information: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/geo/Catastrophes/
contact: Prof. Suzanne A. G. Leroy,
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Brunel University,
Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, (West London), UK.
suzanne.leroy@brunel.ac.uk,
direct: +44-1895-20 31 78; fax: +44-1895-20 32 17, secr: +44-1895-20 3215
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/geo/newweb/peoplesub.html
Paintings hidden in Brooklyn apartment returned to museum
About 200 valuable works of art hidden in a Brooklyn apartment have been returned to the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The prints and drawings by 19th century and early 20th century Russian artists were stolen in 1993 from the Azerbaijan Museum of Fine Arts in Baku, Azerbaijan. Prosecutors in the US said the paintings, by artists such as Shishkin and Lebedev, were seized during an investigation into an international smuggling ring. Two men were arrested for their part in the conspiracy. Masatsugu Koga pleaded guilty and Matavan Aleskerova was convicted in May 1999.
http://www.online.ie/